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FRIENDS OF THE CHATHAM AREA LIBRARY DISTRICT

FRIENDS OF THE CHATHAM AREA LIBRARY DISTRICT (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $595 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($595). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$91k
Revenue FY2025
1
Funders on record
$595
Grants received
$339k
Net assets
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($42k) Expenses 100 ($38k) Net assets 100 ($69k)2018 Revenue 103 ($44k) Expenses 98 ($37k) Net assets 113 ($78k)2019 Revenue 90 ($38k) Expenses 132 ($49k) Net assets 99 ($68k)2020 Revenue 74 ($31k) Expenses 49 ($18k) Net assets 118 ($82k)2021 Revenue 24 ($10k) Expenses 32 ($12k) Net assets 131 ($90k)2022 Revenue 171 ($73k) Expenses 113 ($42k) Net assets 158 ($109k)2023 Revenue 163 ($69k) Expenses 110 ($41k) Net assets 204 ($141k)2024 Revenue 420 ($178k) Expenses 133 ($50k) Net assets 397 ($274k)2025 Revenue 215 ($91k) Expenses 75 ($28k) Net assets 490 ($339k)
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Revenue (215)Expenses (75)Net assets (490)

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
17
$7k
18
$11k
19
$13k
20
$2k
21
$30k
22
$28k
23
$128k
24
$63k
25
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $196 → $98.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF THE CHATHAM AREA LIBRARY DISTRICT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of FRIENDS OF THE CHATHAM AREA LIBRARY DISTRICT's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $595 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE CHATHAM AREA LIBRARY DISTRICT

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Illinois

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF THE CHATHAM AREA LIBRARY DISTRICT: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHATHAM AREA LIBRARY DISTRICT?
FRIENDS OF THE CHATHAM AREA LIBRARY DISTRICT (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $595 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($595). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE CHATHAM AREA LIBRARY DISTRICT have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $595 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE CHATHAM AREA LIBRARY DISTRICT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE CHATHAM AREA LIBRARY DISTRICT?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $595 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE CHATHAM AREA LIBRARY DISTRICT find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing